cartilage

Borrowed from French cartilage, from Latin cartilāgō. Partially displaced native gristle, from Old English gristel.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː.tɪl.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈkɑːt.lɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑɹ.təl.ɪd͡ʒ/, /ˈkɑɹt.lɪd͡ʒ/

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cartilage (countable and uncountable, plural cartilages)

1. (anatomy, uncountable) A usually translucent and somewhat elastic, dense, nonvascular connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos, being replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates.

   Synonym: gristle

2. (anatomy, countable) A particular structure made of cartilage.

• “cartilage”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “cartilage”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Borrowed from Latin cartilāgō.

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.ti.laʒ/

cartilage m (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) cartilage

• “cartilage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• glacerait

First known attestation 1377-1377, borrowed from Latin cartilāgō.

cartilage oblique singular, m (oblique plural cartilages, nominative singular cartilages, nominative plural cartilage)

1. (anatomy) cartilage
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):

     corrosion qui est du cartilage qui est entre les trous des nazilles

     corrosion which is of the cartilage between the wholes in the nostrils